Playing With / Dreaming the Truth

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Basic Trope: Sleeping, and dreaming, allows a character to realize something.

Straight:

Murgatroyd, after many hours wrestling with the machine to break into the enemy fortress, is forced by his friends to go to sleep. When he wakes, he has a brilliant idea on how to fix it.

Sophonisba has watched Hortensia acting oddly. When she goes to sleep, she dreams of Hortensia talking to her enemy, and realizes that Hortensia is a spy.

Julian, having met Ivan, an older man who greatly resembles him, dreams of a childhood picnic, except that the man at the picnic table is Ivan, and not the man whom Julian had thought was his father. When he wakes up, he realizes he is Ivan's son.

Exaggerated: Dreaming is the best way to solve problems in the setting. By extension, the smartest characters in the cast have an egregious case of Brilliant, but Lazy.

Downplayed: Hepzibah figures out a geometry problem she had been stuck on after she goes to sleep.

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